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Blog / Admissions
My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers
the Maker Portfolio, Dawn gave a talk at Maker Faire Bay Area about how -
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Blog / Academics & Research
Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…
, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?
degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an -
Blog / Challenges
rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam
state of frenzy, this is a state of unfounded clarity--on my emotions, on ... have and ruin it spontaneously on a whim, because every little state -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)
Massachusetts (like most US states) allows driving with a foreign license printed in English. “Yeah, but what about the states that don’t?” To my ... comes with many perks, like being able to travel between states without -
Blog / MIT Life
can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall
state of mind—my average mood is more positive, the fluctuations have felt less dramatic, and most importantly, my baseline emotional state is ... ’d love to, I can’t put my mental state through a rigorous scientific -
Blog / People & Identities
[guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26
me by stating that "pets are not allowed in dorms," but a girl can only ... up, defeating its immediate purpose. Living in the states has brought ... United States to pursue my studies. I presumed it was the right choice -
Blog / Challenges
by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano
elementary school. i was never good, but at some point i got to the state where ... without looking at the keyboard. this is a wonderful state to be in because ... future in a way that worsens your state of mind or comes at the cost of -
Blog / Challenges
insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense
be like to live your entire life in that state of forced indifference ... this state of being is actually fairly similar to the previous one ... to enter work-induced flow states i would wonder why i kept pursuing -
Blog / People & Identities
butterfly season the very tired caterpillar
home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... 's cookies at the state fair. Studying at Caribou after school. Crying in my ... personal items. It feels like I exist in a state of impermanence, with -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a
before called "Ocean State Job Lots." We had been so spooked and ... way through the parking lot to Ocean State Job Lots, which basically was ... purgatory-like reality that is Ocean State Job Lots and, more specifically -
Blog / Rural and Small-Town
[Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25
college. You can find this event, along with all our upcoming offerings, at ... -hosted STARS’ inaugural Northeast Counselor Conference along with Yale University, Brown University, Colby College, and Columbia University in the City of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.
degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... 'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... E class I need for my degree, and I'm doing a lot better this term. I'm too -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge
-fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... other. Students do not apply directly to the university, but rather to -
Blog / Internships & Externships
i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early
Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was ... said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer -
Blog / About Decisions
it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred
offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this -
Blog / About Decisions
Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ
offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel ... and Private Universities,” by Shadowen and Tulante, 49 Santa Clara L ... Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…
. Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... also offer classes on genre fiction and science fiction, taught by an MIT ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for
